Goldie Hawn brings joy via satellite
Nicole Pinto
Issue date: 9/28/05 Section: Features
Goldie Hawn hit the big screen at Lock Haven University on Monday night.
Hawn, a well acclaimed actress, came to the university via satellite from William Paterson University of New Jersey. Over a hundred other schools were listening to this satellite, including a school in Canada.
Hawn spoke of her life's path to success, and how students could reach success on their own. Earlier in her life, she never knew where she was going to be. All she knew was that she loved being a dancer. She grew up in an average family in Washington D.C.
"I did not grow up with a sliver spoon in my mouth," said Hawn.
Hawn was never very good at academics and her own mother taught her how to read. She knew that she was not perfect but learned the lesson in life that it is okay to not be perfect because no one is. She spoke about people being afraid of failure and how it holds people back from their joy in life.
At only 17, Hawn owned her very own dancing school and taught there. She then decided to move to New York City to dance. Her advice is to always be prepared for anything.
"A person can't go wrong if they are prepared," said Hawn.
She never dreamed of being anything more than a dancer because she was a realist.
Hawn did not make it onto Broadway but she did not give up and run back home to D.C. Instead, she hung in there and became a Go-Go dancer. She than landed a role on the Andy Griffith Show as a dancer. She then packed her bags, with only $250 in her pocket, and moved to L.A.
In L.A. she had more auditions and was soon signed by the William Morris Agency.
So her life wasn't what she expected it to be at all. Her dancing friends became very jealous of her but she was not going to apologize for her success.
"Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it," said Hawn.
She felt lost in the world of fame, and did not feel like she belonged there. She was scared and lost her joy. She attended American University for a year, and she saw a psychiatrist for nine years. She learned how to put the things that she felt and the things that she thought together. Joy lives inside of a person, and everyone's joy is different. Joy is something that comes natural. Being a mother gave her great joy and that was the only thing she could have failed at.
Hawn said, "It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."
When it came time for questions over the phone or emails for Hawn, the first school's question came from our very own LHU. The question was, "You had a whole life's design, what motivated you when the negativity surrounded you?"
Hawn's response to our question was, "I had hope and believed in myself."
Hawn wrote her first book, "A Lotus Grows in the Mud."
The National Society of Leadership and Success sponsored this program and have more speakers to come. The next speaker will be Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, on Oct. 18th.
Hawn, a well acclaimed actress, came to the university via satellite from William Paterson University of New Jersey. Over a hundred other schools were listening to this satellite, including a school in Canada.
Hawn spoke of her life's path to success, and how students could reach success on their own. Earlier in her life, she never knew where she was going to be. All she knew was that she loved being a dancer. She grew up in an average family in Washington D.C.
"I did not grow up with a sliver spoon in my mouth," said Hawn.
Hawn was never very good at academics and her own mother taught her how to read. She knew that she was not perfect but learned the lesson in life that it is okay to not be perfect because no one is. She spoke about people being afraid of failure and how it holds people back from their joy in life.
At only 17, Hawn owned her very own dancing school and taught there. She then decided to move to New York City to dance. Her advice is to always be prepared for anything.
"A person can't go wrong if they are prepared," said Hawn.
She never dreamed of being anything more than a dancer because she was a realist.
Hawn did not make it onto Broadway but she did not give up and run back home to D.C. Instead, she hung in there and became a Go-Go dancer. She than landed a role on the Andy Griffith Show as a dancer. She then packed her bags, with only $250 in her pocket, and moved to L.A.
In L.A. she had more auditions and was soon signed by the William Morris Agency.
So her life wasn't what she expected it to be at all. Her dancing friends became very jealous of her but she was not going to apologize for her success.
"Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it," said Hawn.
She felt lost in the world of fame, and did not feel like she belonged there. She was scared and lost her joy. She attended American University for a year, and she saw a psychiatrist for nine years. She learned how to put the things that she felt and the things that she thought together. Joy lives inside of a person, and everyone's joy is different. Joy is something that comes natural. Being a mother gave her great joy and that was the only thing she could have failed at.
Hawn said, "It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."
When it came time for questions over the phone or emails for Hawn, the first school's question came from our very own LHU. The question was, "You had a whole life's design, what motivated you when the negativity surrounded you?"
Hawn's response to our question was, "I had hope and believed in myself."
Hawn wrote her first book, "A Lotus Grows in the Mud."
The National Society of Leadership and Success sponsored this program and have more speakers to come. The next speaker will be Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, on Oct. 18th.
